The Barber of Seville: A Comic Opera, in Two Acts; as performed at the Theatre Royal, Covent Garden. The Overture and New Music Composed, and the Whole Adapted to the English Stage
London: Printed by and for J. Roach, at the Britannia Printing Office, Russell-Court, Drury Lane ... Price Two Shillings, 1818.
Octavo. Modern yellow wrappers with title label to upper. 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), [i] (named cast list), [5]-55, [i] (publisher's catalogue).
Named cast includes Mr. Jones (Count Almaviva), Mr. Fawcett (Doctor Bartolo), Mr. J. Isaacs (Basil), Mr. Liston (Figaro), Mr. Pyne (Fiorello), Mr. Simmons (Argus), Mr. Blanchard (Tallboy), Mr. Comer (Officer), Mr. Atkins (Notary), Mrs. Dickons (Rosina), and Mrs. Sterling (Marcellina).
Slightly worn and browned; occasional small stains, minor creasing, and mispagination; small portion of blank upper outer corner of pp. 11/12 lacking.
First Edition. OCLC 503796070 (two copies at the British Library only).
Bishop's Barber of Seville, a comic opera in three acts to a libretto by J. Fawcett and D. Terry after T. Holcroft and P.-A. Beaumarchais, was first performed in London at Covent Garden on 13 October 1818.
"In his day [Bishop] enjoyed a commanding reputation as the guardian of the best traditions of English song, and for a time he kept English opera alive almost single-handed." Nicholas Temperley in Grove Music Online.
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